The artful recluse
Subtitle: painting, poetry, and politics in seventeenth-century China
By: edited by Peter C. Sturman, Susan S. Tai ; essays by Peter C. Sturman, Timothy Brook, Jonathan Chaves, Jonathan Hay, Hui-shu Lee
Contributors: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Asia Society
Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Delmonico Books/Prestel
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, CA; Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783791352725
Subjects: Intellectual life; Recluses; Arts and society; Exhibitions; History
Notes: This catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China, organized by Susan S. Tai in collaboration with Peter C. Sturman and presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, October 20, 2012-January 20, 2013, and the Asia Society, New York, March 5-June 2, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of reclusion / Peter C. Sturman; title: The artful life of the late-Ming recluse: Li Rihua and his generation / Timothy Brook; title: "Traces buried among the market towns": literary expressions of reclusion / Jonathan Chaves; title: Posttraumatic art: painting by remnant subjects of the Ming / Jonathan Hay; title: In the lotus: Bada Shanren and the heart of the Yimin / Hui-shu Lee; title: Catalogue of the exhibition / edited by Peter C. Sturman.